(These are related to the Egton HOGGARTHs but to keep things parcelled up in digestible chunks I'm inclined to call the descendents of William the Blacksmith "The Glaisdale branch". )
1939 telephone book has HOGGARTH Atkinson & Sons, Haulage Contrs, Esk View, Glaisdale 38.
Whitby Gazette , Friday 30 December 1988. page 23.
Steadily expanding in size and scope is the haulage business of A Hoggarth and Sons, based at Selly Hill, near Whitby.
From small beginnings in about 1925 when Mr Atkinson Hoggarth bought a second hand Morris cattle wagon. the firm has grown until today it operates a fleet of nine milk collection tankers and six general haulage vehicles.
A workforce of 22, drawn from the Whitby district, is employed at the five and a quarter acre Selly Hill site, a former Army Ordnance depot from which the firm has operated since 1977.
Throughout its history, running the company has been very much a family affair. Three sons of Atkinson Hoggarth - a former village blacksmith at Glaisdale - have been involved in the business, and one of them, Reg, is still a partner in the firm. His son Charles and nephew Steve now run the business.
The milk collection side of the business which today covers an area from Fylingdales to Lingdale, began in the 1930s, when milk was left in churns at the roadside by farmers. Then in 1972 Hoggarths were appointed hauliers by the Milk Marketing Board for their newly introduced bulk milk collection.
Hoggarths are currently working to increase the general haulage work which takes their drivers anywhere in the UK. The company has its own team of mechanics and as well as servicing their own fleet of vehicles, they will undertake repairs and maintenance for others.
Another aspect of the business is the storage of animal feed and fertilisers for various merchants in the area, and it is on this side that the partners hope to see their next major increase within the next two or three years.
Advert -
A. Hoggarth & Sons, Selly Hill, Guisborough Road, Whitby. Telephone 604777 and 600161.
Haulage & Storage Contractors.
Local and Long Distance all areas.
Contract Hauliers to the Milk Marketing Board since 1933.
Vehicle Repairs & Maintenance.
Test Preparations & Inspections.
Agents for BOC Gases.
Whitby Gazette 2 March 1990 page 17.
When back in the 1920s Glaisdale village blacksmith Mr Atkinson Hoggarth, decided to keep a few pigs and some beasts and bought a second-hand Morris cattle wagon, he could not have realised he was founding a highly successful family haulage business.
But it was from that modest start that A. Hoggarth and Sons, of Selly Hill, Whitby, grew and developed.
Mr Atkinson Hoggarth had seen the blacksmith's trade diminishing as tractors gradually replaced horses.
He learnt to drive with the help of a local bus driver and eventually began carrying other people's stock, as well as his own. Later, his eldest son, William Atkinson Hoggarth took over the driving duties.
A second-hand Bedford lorry was bought next, and in 1933 Hoggarths became contract hauliers to the Milk Marketing Board, the milk being collected in churns at that time, of course.
Eventually, there was a fleet of seven vehicles on milk collection, servicing a large area and delivering milk to Sinnington, near Pickering, Driffield, Whitby and Middlesbrough.
On leaving the Army in 1946, Mr A. Hoggarth's son Reg took over the business in partnership with his father, his mother Maude, and two brothers, William Atkinson and Frank.
During the 1950s, however, William Atkinson and Frank left the enterprise to operate independently.
In 1972 the MMB introduced a bulk milk collection scheme in the Whitby area and appointed Hoggarths as hauliers.
A major step forward was taken in 1977 when the firm acquired its present 5 1/4 acre site at Selly Hill, finally leaving the former turf shed at Glaisdale which had for years been at the centre of things.
Today, Hoggarths' fleet of milk collection tankers services nearly 200 farms in the district while its articulated lorries travel anywhere in the UK on general haulage duty.
Another aspect of the business is warehousing, and Hoggarths store animal feed and fertilisers.
Mr Reg Hoggarth retired in late 1981 and the firm is managed now by a partnership consisting of his son, Mr Charles Hoggarth, and Mr Steve Hoggarth, a son of Mr Frank Hoggarth.
There are 20 employees, all local people, and the combined experience of the complete Hoggarth's team adds up to 214 years. One man has been 42 years with the firm.
Advert –
A HOGGARTH
& SONS LTD.
Bulk Blower Feed
and Grain Wagon.
Bulk Water Haulage
on request.
HGV Service,
Maintenance and repairs.
Power Washing
Facilities.
Bulk Milk
Collection from local Farms.
Long Distance
Haulage & Local Haulage.
Storage Facilities
Inside and Out
Pre-Test Servicing
and Overhaul.
SELLY HILL, WHITBY. Telephone 600161
Three-Quarters of a century ago, a North Yorkshire blacksmith turned to a different kind of horsepower.
In the early 1920's Atkinson Hoggarth from Glaisdale realised that horseless carriages would eventually replace the animals.
And in 1928, with three sons to support, Atkinson and his wife Maud decided to diversify into livestock haulage.
The company developed into a milk collection service for local farms and, in 1935, a contract was secured with the Milk Marketing Board for the collection of milk from farms around Whitby and the surrounding area.
After World War II and the death of his father, Reginald Hoggarth became principal partner - the others being his older brothers William and Frank who stayed in the business until the 1950s.
A Hoggarth and Sons moved from Glaisdale to Selly Hill, Whitby, in 1974 and is now a large general haulage business, offering a specialist bulk haulage service.
Managed by Reginald's son, Charles Hoggarth, and his cousin Stephen Hoggarth, the company operates 14 vehicles, mainly in the liveries of their clients.
But that decision by Atkinson and Maud to change the business direction also spawned a non-stop business association with insurers Provincial Insurance Company.
After a takeover, that company became Provincial UAP and was subsequently absorbed into the AXA group.
David Rhodes, of Scarborough-based insurance brokerage A S Green and Co, has personally looked after the Hoggarth account since 1956.
The long business association was marked at a recent celebration dinner.
With an unusual name like Atkinson I thought
it worth looking up in the 1891 census index and there he is Atkinson HOGGARTH
age 6 in piece 3993 folio 118. The family (at 32 Underhill
Glaisdale) in full is:
William age 52, Blacksmith born Egton
Mary A age 45 born Goathland
John T age 19, Blacksmith's Apprentice
Ann E age 11
Alice age 10
William age 10
Atkinson age 6
Amy age 2
(All the children were born in Glaisdale)
Looking at the 1881 census the family is shown as living at number 36 Underhill. A typo?, they moved house or maybe they renumbered the houses. In 1881 both Alice and William are 2 months old and thus twins. There was also a daughter called Martha age 10 in 1881 (in Stockton or thereabouts in 1891) and a visitor - Elizabeth HOGGARTH mother to the head of the house, aged 70 and the Widow of an Ag Lab. She was born in Ugthorpe.
Having done a search on my pages for
"blacksmith" I came across this "In "Life and Tradition in
the Moorlands of North-East Yorkshire, by Marie HARTLEY and Joan INGILBY"
it says on page 113:
William HOGGARTH, born in 1838 at Egton Bridge, lived to be 100, and after work
in Middlesbrough and at the furnaces at Glaisdale finished his career as the
local blacksmith at Glaisdale End." A search of The Times
provided the following note in the edition of Saturday 24th December
1938:
Looking back to 1851 there is, in the census index for Ugthorpe, a William
HOGGARTH age 12 born in Egton on folio 684. Updating that with the use of
the census on line:
1851 census Ho107-2374 folio 684, Burnt House,
Ugthorpe
John FAWCETT Head Mar 83 Farmer of 8 acres YKS Glaisdale
Ann do Wife Mar 73 YKS Rosedale
William HOGGART Visitor 12 Scholar YKS Egton
1851 census Ho107-2374 folio 49, Midge Hall,
Egton
Luke HOGGART Head Mar 55 Farmer of 8 acres employing no labourer YKS Egton
Elizabeth do Wife Mar 40 YKS Ugthorpe
Thomas do Son 9 Scholar YKS Egton
Mary A do Daur 6 YKS Egton
Jane do Daur 1 YKS Egton
Looking at O'Connor's book it appears that William was born (or baptised?) 22 Dec 1838 and his parents are Luke HOGGARTH and Elizabeth FAWCETT. Which means that they're all relatives of Rod, Margaret etc.
In May 2004 Gillian STAINTHORPE nee HODGSON got in touch and tied the bits of string together. Gillian's father is Francis William HODGSON one of the two brothers who ran the pop firm (mentioned below) of F. HOGGARTH (F=Frank) who was Gillian's Father's Uncle. From what Gillian told me and what it says in the Whitby Gazette I've pieced together the outline descent below. There should also be John R HOGGARTH of Glaisdale, another grandson of Atkinson, but I don't know who his father is.
1 William HOGGARTH b: 22 Dec 1838 in Egton, NRY bap 23 Dec 1838, St Hedda RC, Egton Bridge d: Aft. 1938 Occupation: Blacksmith
. +Mary Ann SHERWOOD formerly ATKINSON b: Abt. 1845 in Goathland, NRY. m: 11 Sep 1869 Danby.
. 2 Martha HOGGARTH b: 16 Jun 1870 Moons Row Glaisdale.
....+ James SMITH b: Loftus m: 30 Nov 1896 Glaisdale Paris Church
....3 MacDonald SMITH
....3 Nellie SMITH
....3 Lillian SMITH
. 2 John T HOGGARTH b: Abt. 1871
. 2 Francis HOGGARTH b: Abt. 1873 Occupation: Started the Pop Business
. 2 Anne E HOGGARTH b: Abt. 1879
. 2 Alice HOGGARTH b: January 1881
. 2 William HOGGARTH b: January 1881
. 2 Atkinson HOGGARTH b: Abt. 1884 Occupation: Blacksmith, Lorry Firm
.... +Maude
.... 3 William HOGGARTH
.... 3 Frank HOGGARTH Occupation: Lorry Firm
.........4 John Reginald HOGGARTH
...........+ Elizabeth A.
........ 4 Steve HOGGARTH Occupation: Lorry Firm
...........+ Audrey M.
.... 3 Reginald HOGGARTH Occupation: Lorry Firm
........ 4 Charles R HOGGARTH Occupation: Lorry Firm
...........+Christine
. 2 Amy HOGGARTH b: Abt. 1888
.... +?? HODGSON
.... 3 Francis William HODGSON b: Abt. 1921 Occupation: Pop Maker
........ 4 Gillian HODGSON
...........+ Norman Thomas STAINTHORPE
........ 4 Christine HODGSON
...........+ Ian CURRAN
.........4 Jacqueline HODGSON
...........+ David KNAPTON
.... 3 Jack HODGSON Occupation: Pop Maker
........ 4 Rod HODGSON Occupation: Stakesby Manor Hotel
........ 4 Frank HODGSON
........ 4 John HODGSON
.... 3 Lorna HODGSON
.......+Gill BARKEL
........ 4 Gilna BARKEL
........ 4 Loril BARKEL
The male line ancestors of William the blacksmith are thought to be:
1 John HOGGARTH b: Abt. 1735 Occ: Farmer, Egton Grange.
. +Jane SHAW b: Abt. 1735 d: Abt. Dec 1779 m: 29 Feb 1756 in Egton, NRY.
. 2 Francis HOGGARTH b: Abt. 3 Feb 1762 in Egton, NRY d: Jan 1843 in Egton, NRY Occ: Tailor
... +Mary GARBUT m: 11 Jan 1795 in Egton PC
.... 3 Luke HOGGARTH b: 1795 in Egton, NRY d: 8 Mar 1865 in Egton, NRY Occ: Ag Lab
...... +Elizabeth FAWCETT d: Aft. 1881 m: 30 Jan 1834 in Egton, NRY.
........ 4 William HOGGARTH b: 22 Dec 1838 in Egton, NRY d: Aft. 1938 Occ: Blacksmith
Gillian said that William was involved with the rescue of the cart horse that went over the side of Beggars Bridge. I've pinched the attached picture from "Round and About the North York Moors" by Burns and Rigg. According to that book the lead horse was saved but the one seen here died.
Telephone book for 1926 shows number Whitby 167, HOGGARTH
Francis, Mineral Water Mfr, Clyde ho Sptl bdge.
Telephone book for 1939 shows the same number and address.
Whitby Gazette, 30 May 1986.
"At Your Service" is the motto at Hoggarth's, Whitby's own soft drinks manufacturers and beer, wine an spirits wholesalers.
And "at your service" means just that, emphasised the firm's new manager, Mr David Turner - providing a good reliable, efficient service for valued customers old and new, is the most important rule at Hoggarth's.
Being strictly a family concern - Mr Turner's parents. Mr and Mrs Barry Turner, have been the firm's new owners since the end of April - means a high degree of personal attention to customers and in the day to day running of the business.
Hoggarth's as always been very much of a family affair. Established in 1921 under the name F. Hoggarth, it has been run since the 1930s and '40s by the Hodgson brothers , Jack and William, who were later joined in the 1950s by their brother-in-law Gill Barkel.
Since the firm first began, its chief product has been soft drinks, manufactured and bottled at the firm's headquarters in Spittal Bridge, and today though modern equipment and processing methods have been introduced these are still produced to high standard, tried and tested recipes.
The range available boasts no less than 10 flavours on the mineral side, with eight squashes and cordials.
The wholesale side of the business was introduced in the 1950s and Hoggarth's now stock in the region of 1,000 product lines for supply to local cafes, hotels, guest houses, clubs and other similar businesses and organisations.
On the beer and lager side, all the major breweries are represented - Carlsbergh, Guinness, Holsten, John Smiths, McEwan Younger, Joshus Tetley, Theakstons, Vaux, Whitbread, Bass and Drybrough - while Cider from Bulmers, Taunton and Coates Gaymer is stocked.
A wide selection of wines and spirits is available and, Britvic, Schweppes and Canada Dry are some of the names on the soft drinks side. Coca Cola is also supplied and there is a good range of crisps and snacks.
Deliveries are made on weekdays, when Hoggarth's is open from 8 am to 5 pm, throughout an area ranging from Saltburn to Filey along the coast and inland to all parts of the Esk Valley. The premises are also open for personal collections on Saturday mornings, and in summer there is a Sunday service, again for collections only.
The Turner family, who also own two Scarborough hotels - the four-star Holbeck Hall and two-star Wrea Head, at Scalby - have plans to expand and improve Hoggarth's chiefly in the establishment of other distribution centres.
"This will mean we can provide even better coverage for an even bigger area," commented Mr Turner.
Mr Turner, who was previously responsible for buying in all such products as Hoggarth's supply for the family hotels, managed by his brother, Mark, has the backing of a competent team of about 15 staff, and during the transitional period, the Hodgsons are staying on to lend their experience and advice.
"Our whole aim," said Mr Turner, "is to continue to offer the very good service enjoyed by customers in the past, and to make it even better."
Text under photo -
Seen outside the Spittal Bridge depot are some of Hoggarth's staff, old and new (left to right) : new manager Mr David Turner, who is receiving a decanter of whisky to mark his arrival Mr Jack Hodgson, Mr Bill Hodgson, representative Mr Robert Cook, and Mr Gill Barkel.
Whitby Gazette 25 August 1989.
An old established Whitby firm, which manufactured soft drinks for more than 50 years and in 1966 added a wholesaling and retailing of wines, spirits and beers to its operation, is to cease trading.
F. Hoggarth, of Spital Bridge, has been taken over by Pontefract-based drinks distributor Hey UK. The company has bought the assets of F. Hoggarth as part of a new marketing strategy and now plans to expand its Scarborough depot at a cost of more than £1m.
Mr Philip Targett, Hey UK's group commercial manager, told the Gazette that all Hoggarth's employees would be offered alternative jobs.
Although most of Hoggarth's activities will be transferred to Hey's Scarborough distribution centre in Queen Margaret's Road, Hey UK intends to maintain a small cash-and-carry centre in Larpool Lane for its Whitby area business.